An interview with the creator of YouTube hit “Happy Slip”

Technology reporter Benjamin Pimentel recently blogged here about Christine Gambito, creator of the video blog HappySlip.com, which has become one of the bigger hits in the user-generated-content world of YouTube.com with nearly 30,000 subscribers. One video alone has been viewed more than 2.7 million times and finished second in voting for 2006 YouTube video Awards for Best Comedy.

Pimentel also wondered whether HappySlip.com may have also started a YouTube genre: Humorous clips of young first-generation Asian Americans and Asian Canadians poking fun at their immigrant parents’ bumbling efforts to adapt to new technology.

But this week’s episode of The Chronicle’s Pinoy Pod podcast features an interview with the New York City resident and aspiring actress, who tells the paper’s Michelle Louie and Benny Evangelista that her parents not only love her imitations of them, they’ve encouraged her to do them since she was a child.